For a long time, Algerian identity has been presented through a narrow and selective lens. Many Algerians were taught, directly or indirectly, that their ...

Genetic data strengthens the case that humans first settled Sahul around 60,000 years ago, using multiple seafaring routes.

The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its evolutionary history ...

Genetic research does not always produce tidy answers. Sometimes it reveals traces that raise more questions than they settle ...

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related diseases. The ancient strain doesn’t fit neatly into modern categories, ...

The new information pushes the presence of the bacterium Treponema pallidum back at least 3,000 years from what was ...

Ancient DNA from 5,500-year-old remains in Colombia reveals syphilis-related bacteria existed some 3,000 years earlier than ...

Experts reconstructed the genome of Treponema pallidum from 5,500-year-old human remains in Colombia, revealing an unknown ...

Scientists analyzing ancient DNA from a 12,000-year-old double burial in southern Italy uncovered genetic evidence of a rare inherited growth disorder in two closely related prehistoric individuals. A ...

The discovery of catalytic RNA transformed our understanding of life's beginnings. Clare Sansom explores how the RNA world ...

A young woman who lived nearly two millennia ago along the southern coast of England has been the center of scientific ...